1939 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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| Date | July 11, 1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Yankee Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Bronx, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 62,892 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First pitch | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | Mutual, CBS, NBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers |
Red Barber, Bob Elson, Al Helfer (Mutual) France Laux, Arch McDonald, Mel Allen (CBS) Tom Manning, Paul Douglas, Warren Brown (NBC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1939 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the seventh playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 11, 1939, at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York City, the home of the New York Yankees of the American League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 3–1.
Rosters
Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Game
Umpires
| Position | Umpire | League |
|---|---|---|
| Home Plate | Cal Hubbard | American |
| First Base | Larry Goetz | National |
| Second Base | Eddie Rommel | American |
| Third Base | George Magerkurth | National |
The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – Hubbard and Magerkurth swapped positions, also Goetz and Rommel swapped positions.[2]
Starting lineups
| National League | American League | ||||||
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| Order | Player | Team | Position | Order | Player | Team | Position |
| 1 | Stan Hack | Cubs | 3B | 1 | Doc Cramer | Red Sox | RF |
| 2 | Lonny Frey | Reds | 2B | 2 | Red Rolfe | Yankees | 3B |
| 3 | Ival Goodman | Reds | RF | 3 | Joe DiMaggio | Yankees | CF |
| 4 | Frank McCormick | Reds | 1B | 4 | Bill Dickey | Yankees | C |
| 5 | Ernie Lombardi | Reds | C | 5 | Hank Greenberg | Tigers | 1B |
| 6 | Joe Medwick | Cardinals | LF | 6 | Joe Cronin | Red Sox | SS |
| 7 | Mel Ott | Giants | CF | 7 | George Selkirk | Yankees | LF |
| 8 | Arky Vaughan | Pirates | SS | 8 | Joe Gordon | Yankees | 2B |
| 9 | Paul Derringer | Reds | P | 9 | Red Ruffing | Yankees | P |
Game summary
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| National League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||
| American League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Tommy Bridges (1–0) LP: Bill Lee (0–1) Sv: Bob Feller (1) Home runs: NL: None AL: Joe DiMaggio (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Player declined or was unable to play.
- ↑ "American League 3, National League 1". Retrosheet. 11 Jul 1939. Retrieved 23 Oct 2016.
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